My JavaFX Christmas Wishlist

[Jan Tosovsky]

On 2023-11-15, Dirk Lemmermann wrote:
> 
> All I want for Christmas is … / what I think is needed for JavaFX 
> going forward ...

I wish JavaFX better MARKETING. If I sometimes encounter articles comparing various frameworks for building desktop apps, JavaFX is never listed. 

I was sad about it, but nowadays, seeing the rapid progress of novel frameworks like Tauri or Flutter, I tend to understand JavaFX is becoming obsolete. Java itself has a bad reputation in the young generation.

I am losing hope JavaFX can compete, be sexy again, attract people, volunteers willing to implement missing features...

I would be grateful to be wrong. JavaFX still has my sympathy. It won my desktop app frameworks comparison [1] but it itself can hardly revert the trend. 

So, in sum, I wish JavaFX better MARKETING, so it was more visible than today. From my POV it is the key to change the status quo.

Jan

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[1] https://medium.com/@jan.tosovsky.cz/comparing-modern-multiplatform-desktop-frameworks-on-the-image-browser-app-305552c7ebe2